This last week has been a cold reminder of what California once had for its climate. Now, we have super fires and multi-year droughts. But this week I'm going to celebrate that amazing. So here's are some more photos of plant life that rarely experiences snow.

That’s amazing! I haven’t been able to get up to see the snow this year. Haven’t seen snow in the mountains in years, but when I was little it happened once almost every year! Here is a picture of me from back in 2006 in the Santa Cruz mountains

Believe it or not, this is Maui yesterday.Lowest snowfall ever recorded, approximately 6,000 feet. On the Big Island, atop Mauna Loa saw wind gusts of 191 mph and the lowest temperature ever recorded in Hawaii, 11 degrees Fahrenheit. The Storm that brought this may have produced the lowest barometric pressure on Hawaii. That would be truly amazing for a winter storm to surpass all of the hurricanes that have hit the islands.

This was the forecast last week when you were up there. I had to screenshot it because never do we see snow in a local forecast. Glad you got up there to capture the snow. The harsh contrast of vibrant green redwoods and snow is spectacular.

I was showing my grandma my photos of the snow-covered San Lucia Mountains, and she told me her grandma who also grew up in San Francisco frequently experienced snow in the 1800's. I looked it up. No kidding, snow in SF was about as rare as snow high in the local mountains today.

Wow, thanks for sharing Hannah! And thanks all for sharing these all of these amazing memories.

Since this week's events are so rare, I decided I needed to make it back up into the mountains to get some more photos. This time I went to the east bay hills of the Silicon Valley. More coastal oaks and coastal snow!

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